Anna
Freud (3 December 1895 – 9 October 1982) was an Austrian-British
psychoanalyst.[2]
She was born in Vienna, the sixth and youngest child of Sigmund Freud and
Martha Bernays. She followed the path of her father and contributed to the
field of psychoanalysis. Alongside Melanie Klein, she may be considered
the founder of psychoanalytic child psychology.[3]

Compared to her father, her work emphasized the importance of the ego
and its normal “developmental lines” as well as incorporating a
distinctive emphasis on collaborative work across a range of analytical
and observational contexts.[4]

After the Freud family were forced to leave Vienna in 1938, with the
advent of the Nazi regime in Austria, she resumed her psychoanalytic
practice and her pioneering work in child psychology in London,
establishing the Hampstead Child Therapy Course and Clinic in 1952 (now
renamed the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families) as a
centre for therapy, training and research work.

Among the first children Anna Freud took into analysis were those of
Dorothy
Burlingham. In 1925 Burlingham, heiress to the Tiffany luxury
jewellery retailer, had arrived in Vienna from New York with her four
children and entered analysis firstly with Theodore Reik and then, with a
view to training in child analysis, with Freud himself.[23]
Anna and Dorothy soon developed “intimate relations that closely resembled
those of lesbians”, though Anna “categorically denied the existence of a
sexual relationship”.[24]
After the Burlinghams moved into the same apartment block as the Freuds in
1929 she became, in effect, the children’s stepparent.[25]

Freud died in London on 9 October 1982. She was cremated at Golders
Green Crematorium and her ashes placed in a marble shelf next to her
parents' ancient Greek funeral urn. Her life-partner Dorothy
Tiffany-Burlingham and several other members of the Freud family also rest
there.